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Mormon church earns $7 billion a year from tithing, analysis indicates
NBC News ^ | August 13, 2012 | Peter Henderson

Posted on 08/13/2012 4:11:37 PM PDT by greyfoxx39

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To: greyfoxx39

“Wait till they start on the mormon race history!”

When you cover that, be sure to point out the Mormons’ early belief in abolition of slavery.

It was one of the factors which made them unpopular in Missouri.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1838_Mormon_War

And that Joseph Smith opposed slavery in his 1844 candidacy for Potus, whereby he proposed abolishing slavery by 1850, using sale of public lands to compensate slaveholders.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith#Life_in_Nauvoo.2C_Illinois_.281839.E2.80.9344.29

It is worth looking at both sides of issues, don’t you agree?


101 posted on 08/13/2012 11:21:41 PM PDT by truth_seeker
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To: neveralib

This is a conservative site, if you notice, even the members who are going to vote for Romney, profess to despise him and his liberalism.

You can imagine the feelings toward him of the conservatives that refuse to vote for him.

This is not a republican site, it is a conservative site, so we don’t require everyone to line up behind the failed, left-wing governor of Massachusetts.


102 posted on 08/14/2012 12:00:20 AM PDT by ansel12 (Massachusetts Governors, where the GOP goes for it's "conservative" Presidential candidates.)
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To: truth_seeker

I think the average person will be interested in what Mitt was taught from 1947 to 1965, from his religion, and what he was teaching about the inferiority of blacks in his religion from 1965 to 1978 as a Priest.

People know exactly what the devoted Mitt Romney was teaching, he is no rebel, he is a devout, exceptional, Mormon.

The response from Mormons that they had the real truth, and were practicing it while we were watching Animal house and Star Wars, and then that God reversed himself in a revelation to the Holy Mormon Prophet in 1978, will make the average person even more disturbed.


103 posted on 08/14/2012 12:14:15 AM PDT by ansel12 (Massachusetts Governors, where the GOP goes for it's "conservative" Presidential candidates.)
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To: Repub4bush

Both your church and your husbands church, clearly state that Mormonism is not a Christian religion, yet the Mormons will swear to your children that they are, to try and get them into the cult.

This isn’t some kind of game.


104 posted on 08/14/2012 12:20:51 AM PDT by ansel12 (Massachusetts Governors, where the GOP goes for it's "conservative" Presidential candidates.)
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To: ansel12
Both your church and your husbands church, clearly state that Mormonism is not a Christian religion, yet the Mormons will swear to your children that they are, to try and get them into the cult.

Yeah. Sounds like the a lot of American missionaries like the Tebows who come to the Philippines quoting scripture to prove Catholics aren't Christians but evil pagans who are going to hell.

a lot of them hate Catholics more than they love Jesus...

105 posted on 08/14/2012 12:43:03 AM PDT by LadyDoc
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To: Elsie

My church is also incorporated. It’s a legal nicety, one that does not make us a business.


106 posted on 08/14/2012 4:11:19 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: LadyDoc

Please give us a source for your claim that Tim Tebow preaches against Catholics.


107 posted on 08/14/2012 6:39:39 AM PDT by roylene (Salvation the great Gift of Grace.)
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To: LadyDoc; Repub4bush

You are lying about the Tebows, and I don’t why you would do that, a person who tried such a thing probably isn’t interested much in Christianity, except to hate it.

You also left us in the dark about what you disagreed with in my post.

The person that I was posting said she is Southern Baptist, and that her husband is Catholic, both of those Christian denominations clearly state that Mormonism is a non-Christian religion made up by Joseph Smith. I also pointed out that the Mormon recruiters will swear up and down that they are Christians also, and that it is how they recruit innocents into their cult.


108 posted on 08/14/2012 7:49:34 AM PDT by ansel12 (Massachusetts Governors, where the GOP goes for it's "conservative" Presidential candidates.)
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To: roylene
"Please show one post where someone says a particular person will not go to Heaven.

Saturday, August 11, 2012 10:57:08 PM · 209 of 272 roylene to MHGinTN After further thought I am saddened , it has appeared you have abandoned Christ for Romney. Of course that is your choice, good bye dear FR friend and relish in your new found comfort, it appears it rests no longer in Christ but in Romney.

109 posted on 08/14/2012 12:41:02 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
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To: norwaypinesavage

Well, that took a lot of work on your part to show that I was talking about principles and priorities.
If you actually think I can know a person’s heart, you give me way more credit than I deserve.
I used the word “appears” for a reason, I did not say I knew their heart.
Nice try.
However anyone, who claims to be a conservative and abandons their principles that they claim rest in Christ do in fact appear to have abandoned their priorities in Christ to Romney as far as I am concerned.
I stand by that.
Only God knows a person’s heart, whether a person goes to heaven or not rest solely with them.


110 posted on 08/14/2012 2:17:50 PM PDT by roylene (Salvation the great Gift of Grace.)
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To: LadyDoc

Bearing false witness on devoted Christians dedicating their lives to missionary work is pretty bad.

It is one thing to be atheist or whatever you are, but to hate Christians so much as to try to create an internet lie about named individuals.


111 posted on 08/14/2012 6:27:33 PM PDT by ansel12 (Massachusetts Governors, where the GOP goes for it's "conservative" Presidential candidates.)
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To: ansel12

heh. Since I am a Catholic and an ex missionary, and still live overseas where I have to hear anti Catholic sermons every time my “evangelical” relatives hold a party and invite their “pastor” to give us a small “blessing” (which usually turns out to be a half hour sermon), did it ever occur to you that I was speaking from experience?


112 posted on 08/14/2012 11:01:52 PM PDT by LadyDoc
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To: LadyDoc

No, what you are doing is lying and bearing false witness against Christian missionaries by name, a popular name here, shared by their son, who is a Christian inspiration to millions.

I think that you are doing a nasty little piece of anti-Christian evil, by using the internet to spread this lie about that family.

You do that in service to Mormonism on a Mormon thread, while loudly announcing that you are a Catholic.


113 posted on 08/14/2012 11:17:31 PM PDT by ansel12 (Massachusetts Governors, where the GOP goes for it's "conservative" Presidential candidates.)
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To: ansel12
LINK notes: Even though over 80% of the population of the Philippines is Catholic, the BTEA says this on their website:

The Philippines, a country comprised of over 7,100 islands, has historically been an area of abuse and conquest. Of the 86 million Filipinos, we estimate that over 65 million have never once heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Our PLAN is to preach the Gospel in every village in the Philippines in the next few years. The task is great, but God specializes and delights in doing the impossible! We intend to increase our staff of national evangelists to 60. By dividing the country into theaters of operation, with each evangelist assigned to a specific area, and working extremely hard, we intend to preach the Gospel in every village. The plan includes providing theological training and guidance to help national pastors to conduct the best possible follow-up.

Yeah....big white Americans will teach all those poor Pinoys how to be Christian...and notice he doesn't seem to notice there are other Protestant Churches in the Philippines....they don't count, I guess...

114 posted on 08/16/2012 10:44:23 PM PDT by LadyDoc
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To: Pollster1
 
Mission statement follows...
 
 
 
Second: The object of this corporation shall be to acquire, hold and dispose of such real and personal property as may be conveyed to or acquired by said corporation for the benefit of the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a religious society, for the benefit of religion, for works of charity and for public worship. Such real and personal property may be situated, either within the State of Utah, or elsewhere, and this corporation shall have power, without any authority or authorization from the members of said Church or religious society, to grant, sell, convey, rent, mortgage, exchange, or otherwise dispose of any part or all of such property.

115 posted on 08/17/2012 5:15:55 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: greyfoxx39

The church “earns” the money? That may not be the correct word. “demands”, “extorts”, “bills” “receives”, “requires” would all work. A church doesn’t “earn” money.


116 posted on 08/17/2012 5:22:32 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("When America ceases to be good, she'll cease to be great!” - de Tocqueville)
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